Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Qur’anic Sciences in 30 Days Part 12 Clear & Ambiguous Verses
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The transcript discusses various aspects of the Quran and its meaning, including "will" and "will" in various cultures. The transcript also discusses the meaning of "will" in the Bible and its use in various cultural context. The transcript provides insight into the meaning of "has" in Islam and how it can be used to create physical meaning. The transcript also discusses the use of "has" in English to describe people and its potential for crookedness.
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Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Smilla rahmanir rahim.
Welcome to the 12th lesson in the series on the sciences of the
Quran. We start off with the recitation of one portion of the
Quran
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millenarian the Rabina on a cul
de sac Allahu Allahu Allahu wa Salatu was Salam ala Sayyidina
Muhammad wa ala Sayyidina Muhammad, the more vertical Salam.
We start off today, the 12 regarding
a discussion about
a nursing Well, actually,
we start off today's discussion with the Mokum and the Moto
Shalabi.
Right, so we start off today's discussion with the Mokum and the
Moto Shari.
We had one aspect of modern tavsiye is left contemporary of
Sears and the discussion about that, just like we discussed some
of the other types of Sears, but I'm going to
defer that particular topic to some days later in sha Allah.
That's why we're going to start off, we're going to move on to
some other aspects of the Quran, right that are more fundamental
aspects, the Mokum and the Moto Chabi.
The Mokum and the Moto Chabi, is represented by one important verse
in the Quran which I just recited, I will shortly explain it and
translate it to you. But the idea in brief just so that you know
where we are, is there are verses in the Quran that Allah subhanaw
taala said are Markham. And there are other verses Allah subhanaw
taala has said, Moto Shalabi. So in the verse Ensworth, earlier
Imran Allah subhanaw taala actually says that some verses
amata, shabby, and some verses are Mokum. What is more common with a
shabby mean? So let's first do a little analysis, a linguistic
analysis of it first, so that we get some idea, and then we'll move
on to what those could mean, and what do we do about them? So
firstly, the word Mokum comes from the, from the word Calm, calm in
Arabic.
And
in other words, is it con el burloak. That's what it means what
does that mean? It can be essentially means at gum a shape,
that kind of shape, to make something firm, to solidify
something to make something solid, to strengthen something,
to do something, well, that's another one, to do something
expert to be in an expert manner. And lastly, it can also mean to
master something, right? To make something clear, that's another
meaning as well that you could take from here, though, that's not
the literal meaning here. So it could mean that something that is
done so well, that it's like when you do have a building, you know,
when a building is mahkum, it means that it's a solid building,
and there's no weakness in it, you can't see any shortcomings and any
flaws and any weakness in it. That's Lockean the solid, the
firm, the clearer you could give it those kinds of meanings, the
opposite the motor shabby, that comes from the concept of
literally speaking Chabahar Chabahar ship Han, which
essentially means a similarity between two things a resemblance.
So, when you saying that, this is a ship who have this resembles
this, this is like this, right? This is similar to this. So
similarity between two things. So moto Shab means something mutually
similar to one another. That's kind of the idea you get. So these
things they generally refer to things that are confusing because
this looks very similar to this. Which one is it? Is it this is it
that what's going on here? So
it's the word Moto, shabby, and mush Tabby in Arabic then, right.
Coming from that word means something that is complicated,
something that is unclear, something that is a bit obscure,
something that may be a riddle. So that's kind of the meaning.
There's some other Arabic words as well that you can use in the same
kind of meaning of ambiguity, right? Is the word Mushkin.
Mushkin. musculo also means something that creates a doubt in
your mind. Is it really like that or not confusing? That kind of a
meaning was going on? And thirdly, there's another term we can use
which is Madame mophorn mean means unclear, not sure. Right? These
are you can say different levels of that concept of something being
similar, and so on. Alright. So
let's see how the Quran has used and explain these words first, to
try to understand the main verse that I read from students it
Emraan
Allah subhanho wa Taala says, In the beginning of Surah Surah two
hood, Allah says, Elif
ra kita came to some fusina Tamila don't Hakeem in hobby, Allah,
caribou. Illa Allah in any caminho Naveen young whether she Alif La
Mara kita boon. This is a book now remember, with nearly all of the
Elif lamb or the horror of Macatawa, as we call them, right,
the lamb Ruthenia sin there's always a discussion about the
Quran after it. So he says, Allah says Kitab and Archimate This is a
book or Kemet Ayato, whose verses have been made mahkum now clearly
here refers to all the verses.
So Allah has used the concept of Mokum, for all the verses
describing all the verses yet in the other verse, Allah says, some
of them have come, and some Amata shabby, but here in this verse of
servitude, all of us is a mahkum, samba facilite, then they've been
detailed from the one who's wise and all knowing that you do not
worship anybody but Allah, and I am for you a winner and a giver of
blood typing.
So, in this case, Kitab an argument Kitab, an argument made
firm actually is in the meaning of
solid mustard, in the sense of noble, majestic, that these this
is a book whose verses are majestic or honorable or
dignified, a matter of great honor. All of this kind of meaning
is comes into this. And it is something that no shortcoming and
discrepancy can ever come to this book. That's where Allah subhanaw
taala clarifies that in another place where Allah says, lie at the
hill, but we don't mean by anybody he what I mean healthy. No
falsehood can approach it, no falsehood can approach it or
effect it, either from in front of it or behind it meaning in any way
whatsoever.
So that's a verse that we have where the word Mokum is used for
all the verses in a different meaning. Then we have the word
motor shabby. Again, let's look at a verse Allah subhanho wa Taala
says in Surah Zuma,
in sort of Zoomer ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says in verse 23, Allah Who
knows Zilla accidental Hadith he Kitab moto shabby hum method
Donnie Darko share a Roman who julu doula Rena Yaksha, when are
back home, soon matinee julu Whom Kulu boom in the crib.
Now what that means is, Allah has sent down accidental Hadees the
most beautiful discourse referring to the Quran Kitab and muda shall
be a book which is CO similar, a book which has many many similar
parts to it. So Musa Islam story is mentioned here, it's mentioned
again here, there's gonna you're gonna find a lot of similarities
in the Quran as opposed to discrepancies. So that's what muda
Shabbat is used for here, the whole Quran that you're going to
find something else within the Quran like it the ideas in the
Quran, they're going to corroborate one another. So, all
the entire Quran is being now called moto shabby, but in another
sense of the word, in another linguistic sense of the word which
means co similar in you can say in its most basic meaning which means
being similar to one another. And then Allah says Muthoni which
means
paired.
Paired, which means that there are a lot of lots of pairs mentioned,
found in the Quran Daksha era Mutulu the Latina Shona Raba, whom
were with quivers the skin of those who fear the Lord when they
read the Quran and they see this amazing things inside effects
them, right and that's what Allah subhanaw taala describes it as,
then their skin and their heart soften unto the remembrance of
God. So that's what the Quran is supposed to do for us. It is
supposed to soften us out and it is supposed to make us the perfect
human being. So the Quran Allahu Akbar muda shabby and here means
it is so eloquent and so beautifully laid out that it's
close
similar to one another, that's the whole Quran is like that. However,
when the scholars of the Quran, the Quran ik sciences when they
discuss Mata shabby that this verse is Motegi, and this verse is
Mokum. They don't mean these meanings generally these are the
literal meanings Right? which Allah has used in the Quran for
all the verses. So all the verses according to those two meanings,
Amata Shabbat and also mark them. However, the the main verse that
we're going to look at, which discusses it more in a technical
sense is this verse which I read at the beginning, who will lead
the Zilla Annie Calcutta. I mean, who to Mark Emmert who knows
Maliki to be Whoa, haram Odesza Behat. So I'll read it bit by bit
and explain to you so listen to this carefully. So this isn't the
beginning of sort of Ali Imran Allah subhanho wa Taala says he is
the one who has read Vilde upon you the book, right? He's revealed
the Quran to you, I mean, who from among the Quran from among the
verses of the Quran is to mock them out of verses which are mock
them.
Here I will translate this as, for the most part, clear, these verses
are clear, unambiguous, right? Very easy to understand the
meaning of it, the signification of it, there's no doubt about what
it means it's not a homonym, and so on and so forth. One mole kita
these are the main verses of the book. These are the mother of the
book, literally speaking. They're the main principal verses of the
book Whoa, hieromartyr shall we add, but there are other verses,
which are muted shall be hot. Here we will translate with the shabby
hot in the technical sense of ambiguous, unclear. We can't know
the meaning straightaway, it's difficult to know the mean
straightaway. Now, if you if you carry on with the verse, it will
get become a bit more clearer. But a melody and FE polo be him say
who? That'd be your own Mr. Tasha Bahaman those with deviance in
their heart crookedness in their heart. They go and pursue the
ambiguous verses
for what ibbity of or ill fitting that you have a TiVo that we
in order to search for
temptation for fitna for mischief and to IP delight that really
which means to search for its interpretation.
Isn't that what you're supposed to do on you're supposed to be
looking for interpretation in the Quran? So what's wrong with it?
Okay, the first but they're looking for mischief, okay, that
we can see is a problem, but looking for its interpretation,
what's wrong with an interpretation? Then Allah subhana
wa Tada discusses, he says, Well, now that we that, who in Lulla,
nobody knows the interpretation of them except Allah. Those are some
verses in the Quran, the majority are welcome. But the muta Shabbat
are those unclear ones, ambiguous ones which nobody knows the
meaning of it except Allah.
So if only Allah knows the meaning, now you can understand
why it's crooked. People with crookedness in their heart that go
and try to find even the meaning of that trying to cause mischief
and because the way there's going to be mischief The idea is that if
nobody but Allah knows its meaning and somebody is going to claim a
meaning, then it means that they are
the claiming a meaning. That means it's not the meaning that Allah
has intended. So that's how it causes corruption and a problem.
Alright, let's carry on. Then it says, What Rossi Hona feline meow
coluna ermine, be those who are firmly grounded in knowledge.
Those who are no their knowledge Well, they say I'm an OB we
believe in it could illuminate the Rabina it's all from Allah.
Whether we understand it or not. We know it's all from Allah. This
entire Quran is from Allah just because something is unclear we
can't understand it does not mean it's not from Allah. Wa Mallya
that go in.
And it's only the people with intellect, that are the people
with the hearts and intellect that are going to take heed or take a
lesson from this.
That's interesting. So that's what this verse in so now what the
Quran has done, while another place that all the verses are
mahkum all the verses are moto Shelby, that was used in a
different sense mahkum in the sense that they all elegant,
they're all beautiful, they all majestic, and with a sharpie, in
the sense that they you will find lots of similarities in the Quran.
But in this verse of sorts are the Imran, which actually is the verse
that introduces those two concepts and splits up the verses into the
two parts. Majority of verses are mahkum. They're the main part of
the Quran. They affirm the clear. And the other verses, there's some
ambiguous verse. For example, do you know what caulifla means? Do
you know what noon mean means? And then there's some other so those
are quite clear to understand. Alif Lam Meem saw
The off Thorstein Tassie meme, Jaime Magazin cough that, you
know, the meaning of that is very ambiguous and you can't understand
I'll explain the reasoning for that later on for you. But
there are also other verses that are Mokum, which will be sorry
moto Chavi that we'll be discussing.
That
tells us some verses or Mokum some verses arm with a shabby
but it doesn't tell you it doesn't define it for us. The Quran does
not define it for us as to what exactly is the mahkum? And what
exactly which ones are the most shabby. That's why there are about
I don't know 1215 opinions on this as to what is mahkum and what is
motor Chevy there's about 12 to 15 opinions on this. However, I would
say that
today. Tomorrow I'll discuss some of the other opinions on this,
that they actually there's there's really only two or three really
more important opinions out of all of them all the others can be seen
as coming back into them. So I'm not going to discuss that today.
Today, I'm just going to take one of the opinions that we want to go
with today to understand the bulk of this issue. Then maybe tomorrow
we will discuss some of the additional points but today I want
to just bring to you one clarification or sorry one
definition which is from great Imam Muhaddith whose name was Imam
TB, he says the mahkum is the following URL while the who who l
while the whole manner Allah de la Torok la ISKCON the mahkum are
those verses to which there can be no
no confusion. Right? They are the clear verses they are the very
apparent and clear verses of the Quran in which there can be no no
doubt about its meaning for example Akima solid established
prayer at the SEC I keep bringing those examples right Where's
alumina candle? Mohit sorry, you can say up Bala Kumar Ratan the
luck is to be given first up to two times and so on. These are
very, very clear versus vertical kita Bhullar a Buffy in Zelner who
feel a little codon all of these are very, very straightforward
verses there's no doubt about what they mean. While muta Shabbat then
he says is huella the Torah Allah He Hoffa on filma and Phil
Martindale Murad min.
The motor shall be then are those verses in which there's some
ambiguity, there's a bit of a concealment regarding the intended
meaning, what is the intended meaning here?
So now you can see from these definitions, so very, very general
kind of definition. But that is, broadly speaking, that's what muda
shabby and Mokum are, okay, as I said, because while this is a very
general kind of definition, as it there's lots of opinions as to
what that refers to what the clear ones refer to, and what the
ambiguous ones refer to. And the reason for that difference of
opinion
are quite a few as to where this because the way to figure out what
this means can only be from the verses of the Quran or from the or
from the Sunnah of the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam. Now,
let us look at the verse again. Okay. Now, I translated for you
bit by bit, the way I read for you, it was very clear that it's
only those people who have crookedness that followed that
pursue those verses which are ambiguous. Let me find out what
Elif law means. I think it means this, you know, in order to,
in order to search for mischief, and to search its interpretation,
whereas nobody knows this interpretation except Allah. And
the those firm in knowledge, they would say that, we just believe in
them. They're all from Allah.
There's a separation between those two ideas, those firming
knowledge, they saying that we can't know their meaning, but we
believe in it. And
it's all from Allah subhanaw taala. That's our reading. That's
the way most have written read this verse. So they say they say
that there's no way that you could actually
figure out the meaning of the motor Shelby.
Right. So, I mean, I know there's a question that arises here that I
want to just quickly put to rest quickly is some of you may be
questioning them. What's the point of those verses in the Quran? I
remember maybe the first time I heard about this, like, what's the
point of such verses in the Quran then? If Allah subhanaw taala
wanted to send the Quran as a guidance as a guide, and clear and
clear speech and everything, then why leave some verses which are
ambiguous, right? Why leaves so much ambiguous? There's lots of
reasons for that. A basic reason I'll provide for now is that
remember, the Quran came down at a time when everybody was really
I'm competing with one another, and reveling at wonderful language
and beautiful language and their understanding of the Arabic
language, Arabic language was a big deal. So now what Allah
subhanaw taala is saying that I'm really I am revealing this Quran
to you. But let me start off with Alif Lam Meem? Do you guys know
what the meaning of it they just three letters of your language
that you have so much pride in that, you know, you think you know
this language so well and you can use it. So well tell me what's the
meaning of Alif Lam? Meem? Tell me what's the meaning of Saud? Noon?
Off? Well, Quran Majeed? What's the meaning of it? What is the
meaning of yes in for her? What's the meaning of that? They don't
know the meaning they're beaten, completely beaten, Allah will
reveal on the Day of Judgment.
That could be one wisdom in why he's left it like that. Another
another. Another reason for that is that these are specific. Some
have said that these are special messages to the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam and only the prophets, Allah some knows its
meaning. Nobody else knows its meaning. These are just specific,
direct message. And again, it's to prove that nobody else it could
prove that nobody else knows its meaning. So nobody can claim they
know everything. Right. So it's a humbling factor, you can call it,
that's one big reason that they provide. We'll talk about some
other stuff later. But now let's get back to this. Now, as I the
way I explained this verse of soil earlier, Imran for you, right?
It's one of the beginning verses, you can check it up yourself. It's
generally on the first page of Saudi Arabia Imran, okay.
The way we read it was only Allah knows the meaning. And the people
who are firmly grounded in knowledge, if anybody else knew
it, it'd be the people from the ground knowledge, they just say we
believe in it. Now, there's another way of reading this.
There's another way of reading is that the Wow, which can be
referred to as end, right, which means and so when I learned that
we, the WHO Illa Allah, nobody knows its interpretation, except
Allah was a wonderful L, if you connect that meaning and those who
are firmly ground knowledge, if you connect that to the previous
part, and not make it a separate clause as a separate sentence as
the initiating sentence, then it would mean this. And none know its
interpretation except Allah and those who have only growing
knowledge.
Which means now, Allah knows its meaning and those who are from the
ground knowledge, they also know the meaning after making effort to
understand it, they can get the knowledge of it, that gives an
understanding that they can get an interpretation of it. It is
possible, it is possible. And then your coluna M and Nabi and they
say we we believe in it, that's just an additional, you know,
while they also saying we believe in it regardless, you know,
whether we understand it, no, but they can gain an understanding of
it. And it's all from our Lord. Anyway. So the two valid ways of
reading this, but the majority have gone with the first reading,
which is the Rossi Hoonah Villa and they don't know about it, they
don't have the meaning of it, right? They don't know the meaning
of it and why do we give that meaning preference when they both
possible meanings here that the way you can read it is the
following. There's a hadith which is related from Abdullah in our
bursa the Allahu Anhu. It's now he's a professor of the Quran
right? If there's anybody who's going to know the meaning of this,
it should be Abdullah Abbas with the Allahu Anhu. This is a Hadith
related from him from by Imam Abdul Razak and Imam how communism
was struck. That if not, I busted Allah Radi Allahu Anhu explained,
he says when I learned motor Wheeler, who il Allah way of coal
or Rossi who interfered and he separated it out completely. So
there is no possibility of joining those together he says, what this
means is that none but Allah know its interpretation. And those who
are firmly growing knowledge say, right, that we believe in it,
he separated out completely, and this is a Saheeh isnaad. To him,
this is a site authenticated
chain to this great manifester of the Quran, that what Rastakhan in
the Quran is separate. It's a separate point that they don't
know the meaning and they just say, Allah knows best, you know,
and Allah knows the meaning of it. And the other thing is this, that
in our religion, in our faith, our faith is based on unseen, many
unseen realities. So if somebody is going to say, why don't we know
the meaning of this? Well, why don't we know the meaning of why
can't we see Allah subhanaw taala? Why can't we see Paradise and
*? Allah has mentioned in the Quran, but you know, we can't see
Paradise and *. So a Lavina. You may know and I believe that's
one of the first verses we read in the Quran in the beginning of
sorcerer Bacara that sets us apart from everyone else, like we
believe in unseen realities as well. That's what makes a believer
a believer without believing in unseen realities. A believer is
not a believer. Now some have said, right and maybe we'll just
go with
In this view, for the time being, there's many who have said that,
you know, the
disagreement here between the two groups is actually not
the disagreement here is actually not a substantial difference. It's
just semantic difference. How I mean, sounds like a big difference
of opinion, some saying that
you absolutely cannot understand the motor, Shelby, and the other
saying that you can some people can understand what the shabby,
how can that just be? A difference of words? Right? There must be a
substantial difference. Well, it depends on how you take it. First,
you have to define what are the motor Shelby?
Right. Now, it would depend on what is the motor Shelby? First,
let's determine what the motor, shall we then we can wonder, do we
know the meaning of it or not? Then we can argue about that. So
that's why what it is, is that those who say that he, nobody, but
Allah can know them with a sharpie, right? Only Allah knows
them with a sharpie, they would include in the muta shabby things
like when is the day of judgment to occur?
When is the gel going to image?
What is the reality of all of these other universes that Allah
subhanaw taala has discussed in the Quran?
What's the reality of these things? They say all of these
things are Mutasa. Behat. Only Allah knows their meaning. Nobody
else can claim to know the meaning. Yes, lots of people claim
that they know when the job is going to be coming out. In my life
in the last, I would say 25 years, I've heard so many opinions that
it's going to come out in this time and look at this sign as yet,
but he's not come out yet. And I don't think it's going to come out
for a while. That's why we need to just focus about our own death.
And to prepare ourselves for our own death without worrying about
we have to worry about the Jetsons it becomes we need to be aware,
but we don't have to think that that's going to happen in the next
year or so. Right?
Anyway, that's a separate point. So these people have included
these kinds of ideas. And reality is within the motor shabby, so
obviously, the other group are not going to disagree with them. In
this case, either they they nobody knows when the day of judgment is
going to occur. The signs, of course, but nobody knows exactly
when it's going to occur. Nobody knows when the job is going to
come out. Only Allah knows that. So when you include ideas like
that, concepts like that, which nobody can ever know about, then
they both would agree on that point. Now, those who then say
that the Rossi hemophilia, the firmly grounded people in
knowledge, they can No, they won't include these things in Photoshop
in the first place. They say, Oh, that's just a separate unknown.
That's not an ambiguity that's just unknown. That's a separate
category.
Right? And, and ambiguous ideas, they can be known by the firmly
grounded people in knowledge.
Right. But that won't be the concepts of the Day of Judgment,
because those are beyond the they only what Allah knows. But there
are other aspects. Some have reduced it to a semantic
difference by saying that oh, this is what the differences because
it's very difficult to get a clear understanding of this difference
of opinion otherwise, okay. There is another aspect as well, that
kind of muddies the water of the motor, shall we? Which is already
confusing. Is that what this will mean? Because if we're to look at
this verse, it says, None knows it. I translated as
interpretation, but that's my translation. The wording is, none
knows. It's that we'll accept Allah and the firmly grounded ones
in knowledge. You know, you can read that in both ways, if you
want to write in with both options, but that we'll hear
what does that will mean? Now we already explained that we'll do a
few days ago that generally means interpretation to seek a meaning
of something right based on its wording and so on. However, let's
look at how Allah subhanho wa Taala uses the word in the Quran.
So ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada says, In another verse, Julio, the ruler is
alert Wila yo Mejia de that we know who your holiness who whom
you call and so on, what sorta is the in
Allianz orona, Illa de la yo, T that we are called a Levine and
ASUW which are is that in yourself?
Okay, figure it out and let me know. Okay, when you're sure. So
let me translate it it says Hylian Verona Illa taweelah Are they just
waiting for it's that we'll sorted out of, so this is sort of out of
them. Right as my assistants are telling me. So Holly and Toluna
Illa Wheeler
Are they just waiting for its that will, the day it's that will
comes? Then those who had made it to be forgotten before will say
and so on here that will actually
means reality.
So that we hear doesn't mean interpretation. So the word that
we have is also used in another meaning in the Quran. Now, some of
you may start appreciating why it's not easy to do Tafseer of the
Quran, right? Something like, which might seem to be like a
clear linguistic meaning that, you know, in that particular context,
it means something else. That's why the Quran is difficult. And
that's why not everybody can do a, you know, like a deep Tafseer
yeah, there's some parts which are easily understood, but there's
other parts that people can make mistakes. And that's why one has
to be careful because the word that we'll hear does not mean
interpretation. It means reality. So, if we take that meaning of
that word as us like that in the Quran in another place, right?
Sorry, if this is getting a bit complicated, right?
If you take that meaning of reality, and you apply to the
verse in sort of either Imran None knows its reality except Allah.
And the Rossi Hoonah, fell ill they, you know, whether they know
or not, you can read it in both ways.
You see, if you do say that, that will they also means reality, then
that is very, very clear that the Rossi Hoonah Phil LM cannot know
that, that we have those things of those verses. Because there's a
reality there and the reality of things only Allah subhanaw taala
knows, we only know what its interpretation is or what you get
from it. But the original reality nobody can know it except Allah
subhanaw taala I don't think anybody disagrees with the idea.
If you take
nobody, but Allah knows it that we ie knows its reality, because only
Allah knows the realities of things.
However, if you don't take that we mean that meaning of reality, but
you actually take it in the meaning of Tafseer of explanation
interpretation, then, you know, you have sculpted it because Allah
has used it in that meaning in another place. For example, Allah
subhanaw taala says, Not Bitna betta weed in an Iraqi mineral
washed in the Bitner betta will inform us of its interpretation
inform us of its interpretation.
So the word that we in has been used for interpretation in another
place in the Quran. And it's also been used for Haqiqa for reality.
So that's why both of these meanings couldn't be intended here
as well. That's why the verse itself seems to become motor shall
be almost in a sense an obscure in its meaning.
Right.
Now, today, in the short time that we have left, I'm just going to
take one aspect of the motor shabby, there's so many categories
of the like the reflow mean, so we'll discuss that hopefully a bit
more tomorrow. But today I want to take just one subject of the motor
shabby and that is the mood not the Philomena Tassie meme but
something contained in verses and those are the motor shabby or
SIFAT. The characteristics about Allah subhanho wa Taala that are
difficult to understand. Okay, they create a bit of a conundrum,
a bit of vagueness as to what exactly is it referring to? And
what it is, is that Allah subhanho wa Taala says LASIK, MF li che,
well who was semi bossy? There is nothing like Allah, like there is
absolutely nothing similar to Allah. There is nothing similar to
Allah subhanho wa Taala nothing can be like Allah, Allah is
totally unique and different to anything that we know. And he is
the old listening. And he's the old saying, so we've got that as a
principle, right that nothing can be like Allah if he this is an
agreed upon principle that nothing can be like, like Allah subhanaw
taala he's absolutely unique and different. There's nothing that
resembles him. Right? And we know that from other verses, other
Hadith and so on. But that's the main verse there. Now when you say
that, when when when we when we know about this verse, But then
we've got a number of other verses. For example, Allah says he
a doula, he folk add him. Your doula. He felt add him. Allah's
hand is above their hands.
This is referring to the beta, right when they took the pledge as
who they be, I think right. So Allah subhanaw dasa, when they
took the pledge, Allah subhanaw taala is with them. Allah's hand
is above their hands.
The Hand of Allah, Allah is supposed to be different. Allah is
supposed to be without body without all of that stuff that
humans you know, are made of. So how can he be using the word hand
here?
Right. Now can you see the ambiguity that creeps in
especially when you know the other verse that Allah is unlike into
anything else? So what does that mean?
Another verse, or Rahman while our she's still stoer. The Most
Merciful One is doing STL on his Arsh on his throne.
What does that mean? What is the what is stowa means is
stowa can mean three or four different meanings. So what does
STR mean here?
How is Allah doing STR on the Arsh? How is he established on the
OSH? Now the villa is saying that he's sitting on his couch like
human sit on a throne. Right? The word used here is not sitting
anyway. Right? So handily, that's not what he's saying, okay? But
there's a dolt created by what is the meaning of this, these are,
the motor shall be have versus the proper understanding of it is very
difficult to determine. Okay? So that's why you can also call them
the is to suffer. These are the verses about the characteristics
of Allah. And there's quite a few of them.
Now, in approaching them, there are two ways there are two valid
approaches towards this. And the way you do that is you look at the
earliest scholars, like the majority of Sahaba
and the tabby EAN, and so on the successes, and then after that,
you look at the latest scholars, when times changed, they changed
their opinion about how to deal with these verses. Okay, that's,
this is a, this is a very, in the last I would say 15 to 20 years,
this was a major issue that was going around, especially between
the selfies, people who generally followed him know Tamia, Rahima,
hula, and insisted on some of his opinions and so on and
would ask questions like, Where is Allah and all of this? This was a
huge conundrum. Right? This was done by a minority. Okay. So this
is quite a big issue and a controversial issue in that
regard. So I'm going to try to explain it that there are two
approaches regarding these verses how to interpret them. What does
it mean by hand of Allah here? And what does he mean that Allah is
mystery and then there's other verses as well, that for a number
two, a loofa, thermal wedge hula, in whichever direction you face
varying, you will find the wedge which generally means face of
Allah. I mean, what does that mean? That's really complicated. I
mean, what do you mean? If you take that physically, that the
face of Allah wherever you turn the face of Allah is there that I
will the villa that creates this weird idea that Allah space is so
you know, everywhere so big, whatever. I mean, that's just
really weird. The kind of idea that's where you can't take this
literally. I mean, you just can't take it literally. Otherwise, it
causes a lot of absurdities like that. And then number two, the
verse the other verses tell us that nothing can be like Hola. So
how can you even attribute a face to him? But Allah has used the
word wedge Han. Allah has used the word for a face for a countenance
so what does it mean face here? Does he mean another? Another
meaning does it have another meaning? See the ambiguity that's
created here? As I said, the Moto Shabbiha to have given to human
beings as a challenge. Allah told us that look, there are verses and
only there are verses which are going to be obscure and ambiguous.
Only those with crookedness in their hearts are going to go after
them, you know, to seek for mischief. So that means that don't
go after them. Say I believe in Him, as the people firmly grounded
in knowledge, say, we, it's all from Allah.
Allah knows best its meaning. That's essentially what our self
the true self would actually say. There's a hadith that Imam Bukhari
and Imam Muslim have transmitted from Ashanti Allahu anha.
She says that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
regarding this verse, for either or either Lavina yet to be your
own Amma Tasha Bahaman, for Allah equal Medina, some Mala for her
home. When you see those people who are pursuing the ambiguous
verses of the Quran, trying to find his meaning and so on. Then
those are the people that Allah subhanaw taala is named meaning as
those with crookedness in their heart, so be careful of them, be
warned about them. Then we've got another Hadith Which Imam so that
one was related by Imam Bukhari and Muslim then we've got another
Hadith Which Imam Tabara and he has transmitted from Abu Malika
HIV, Radi Allahu anhu, that he heard the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam saying that I do not fear upon my ummah, except
three problems. So this was one of those heavy races, there are three
problems he's highlighting, I'm just going to mention the first
two in the interest of time, that wealth will become abundant among
them. So wealth will become very easy to attain. And then after
that, they will start to envy and be jealous of one another compete
and so on, and then they're going to start to compete and fight with
one another. And we see that happening today, right? And number
two, the book will be opened up for them. And a believer will take
hold of it trying to seek the interpretation of some of those
verses. Whereas, whereas Allah says, on my limited Wheeler who
Illa Allah, nobody but Allah knows its interpretation, its meaning.
That is exactly what the Sahaba followed. That is what the success
is followed.
After them they just said Look, we're not going to go into the
interpretation of that. Whatever they consider to be with a Shall
we obviously there's a difference of opinion as to what exactly
which one is a militia which is not right. So there are
differences. majority would say that Elif la meme Alif Lam rattle
Gayatri, Elif la mer Yasin, all of those arm with a Sharpie. That's
why they've not done interpretation. There is a
minority who do say it's not with a sharpie, we know its meaning. So
that's why from some of the early manifestos, we actually have
proposals of what preflop mean, could mean
we do have that, because there's a difference as to what because
Allah doesn't mention which I'm with a shaman who shall not he
just says, there are some which I'm with the shabby, he does not
tell us exactly what's more shabby.
That creates even more ambiguity here. However, the way the Sahaba
dealt with those, like, for example, regarding the Hand of
Allah and sdwa, and everything like that, is that they said,
look, it's all from Allah, Allah knows it's reality. We do not know
it's hockey, but and it's reality, only Allah knows its reality,
because we can't know it's reality. How can we know the
reality of Allah
in the sense that we you know, because for reality, you have to
have a lot of knowledge we can't. But at the same time, we're going
to say that whatever Allah, whatever is in here, that may
indicate to somebody
that Allah is like human beings, that may create some kind of
anthropomorphic idea, Corporal realist idea, which means to kind
of give human parts to something, right, human ideas, to impute
human ideas to Allah subhanaw taala. We are very far from that
we exonerate ourselves from that. And we
do 10 XE, which basically means that we exonerate Allah from that,
that he that can't be like that it can't have that kind of a physical
meaning, but we leave it to Allah, we're not going to say whether
it's reality, hockey caught majaz, what the meaning is only Allah
subhanaw taala knows its meaning. That's what we're going to see.
And this is essentially,
what has been transmitted from the earliest early ones. Now,
if you look at it rationally that was looking at it from a
transmitted sense that this is what we have found from our
earliest generation. Right? Because none of them said that you
have to agree with its reality. That's a very dangerous word to
say. This is what some claimants today say that No, you must
believe in its reality. How can you believe in the reality of
things when you don't know what it is? It's an absurd idea. Somebody
said earlier, now they just doing tequila and following that, right?
Now, there's no reality for this. If you look at this rationally
now, okay, if you look at this, rationally, I think I'm just gonna
leave us with that, because our time is really up. I am going to
leave us with one idea here, okay. Which is that, generally speaking,
adults, and children use very similar language, okay? But when
you speak to children, right, when you speak to children, you use
certain words, which Subhanallah the child understands. But if an
adult is watching, and he knows that you're speaking to the child,
he will know why you're using those words. Okay? But if he
doesn't know you're speaking to a child, he'll be wondering, like,
why are you using those words? So, for example, we, what do you say
to your children, when you're saying, Have some milk? Like in
order to majority or Bengali or whatever? What do you say? You
have these specific words like, have some do do, right, instead of
saying, dude, which means milk, right? Have some milky, you know,
I don't know, if you say in English, you know,
you use, you can say childish kind of language to speak to them, you
go down to their level, and you speak to them, right? This is just
my interpretation of this. Now, if an adult is observing this, he'll
know clearly that what this adult is using is words, specifically to
let the child understand it to make some sense of it.
If this adult who's watching this onlooker, he starts saying that,
Oh, that means this guy is also a child, because he is using those
words, and these words are used for children, that means he must
be a child as well, you're obviously going to say that it's
crazy to even think that can you not see what's going on here? So
there's a rational idea here of what these words would mean. So
that's why we will look into that in more detail. But when if you
look at the context in which Allah subhanaw taala discusses the hand,
right in most of them in nearly all of them. What it means is just
control.
Allah has control over them.
Allah or assistance, assistance or control.
For example, we say in English so many times, don't worry, he's in
my hands. We say you have to be covered. He's in his hands, which
means that he's in his control. Okay, it's a no
Moses even in English, we use it as a metaphor like that. So why
can't it be like that? They see the problem of the detractors to
this they don't agree with metaphor in the Quran, which is a
major omission in the Quran. There's numerous metaphors in the
Quran. For example, Allah subhanho wa Taala says, Woman can if he had
the Atma, for Hua fill it or the Atma, what a Dunluce of you Avila,
if I read this literally and say the reality is intended here,
whether it's blind in this world will be blind in the hereafter and
even more deviated. Now poor blind people, I mean, you're causing all
of them to be messed up in the Hereafter, if you're going to go
with the real, the literal meaning, because they're saying
that you must go with the literal meaning. But none of the Salaf
said literal meaning there's no single quote from a set of that
say literal meaning happy, but the way they say it, right. That's why
this needs to be understood that what the earliest scholars said,
is, look, we're not going to go into whether it's a reality or
metaphor, we're just gonna say it's from Allah, we leave it to
Allah. If you look at this from a rational perspective, well, while
keeping the Arabic words that Allah subhanaw taala has used
right in perspective and their meanings, whether they're literal
or metaphorical, metaphorical meanings, then obviously, it could
mean power, it could mean assistance, the Hand of Allah
could mean that because we use that like that, even in English.
And in Arabic, we use it like that as well.
And likewise, when it says that Allah is muster when is still on
his arm, that could mean Allah is in control has authority over the
over the throne, that gives us enough leeway to not say he's
sitting on there, which is what people otherwise will think if you
try to give it a more literal meaning down there.
And you're going to end up creating this weird monster.
That's the thing, because Allah mentions, you know, Allah
mentioned certain words, that there is, wherever you face that
is where the wedge when of Allah, the face of Allah is Allah
subhanho wa Taala discusses some other words. Now, if you tried to
say if you try to take them, literally, you're going to create
a monster out of this, which is highly problematic. So let's let
later others the other scholars who came they found that there was
quite a bit of a problem with people understanding these verses
that people will now not willing to just pass them and leave them
to Allah subhanaw taala as the early people were, and that's why
the early scholars just said, leave them, right. And we'll just
say, we believe in Allah, that's what Allah wants from us, we'll
find out on the day of judgment if Allah wills that now people went
to an interpretation. So they were seeking to find an interpretation.
So now what their alma decided is that let us provide possible
probable suitable interpretations, at least people got something to
something correct and sound to rely on, even though the reality
only Allah knows, but we're going to give some so that's why they
started saying power and so on. And actually this something not
just later scholars did some of the early Sahaba did that as well,
like Abdullah in our bus or the Allahu Anhu. Inshallah, I'll
discuss this in a bit more detail tomorrow, but it's a very, very
important discussion, and I would assume that many of you who have
not not heard the debate, you've definitely, if you don't know the
debate, you've definitely heard about it, and Inshallah, this will
be your, your opportunity to actually actually learn more about
it. So inshallah we'll look at this again tomorrow in more
detail. May Allah subhanaw taala bless our Ramadan's and may Allah
subhanho wa Taala bless us with the Quran and allow us to get a
better approach and understanding for it and protect us from
crookedness in its understanding, working with that one and Al hamdu
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